Marco Ziegenmeyer studied Informatics at the University of Karlsruhe (TH) from 1999 to 2003. During his studies he specialized in the fields of Knowledge Based Systems and Human Computer Interaction. He prepared his diploma thesis “Optimization and adaptation of the Support Vector Classification motivated by real world diagnosis applications” at the Forschungszentrum Informatik (FZI) at the University Karlsruhe (TH). Since December 2003 he has been working as a scientific researcher in the Interactive Diagnosis- and Servicesystems (IDS) group. His research fields are Intelligent Data Analysis and Learning Diagnosis Systems.